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While reporting my recent story on Black farmers, I had the chance to learn more about some of the people who founded #Nicodemus, Kansas - the last remaining African American settlement west of the Mississippi.
This is John and Lee Anna Samuels.
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This is John and Lee Anna Samuels.
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The Samuels' great-great-great-granddaughter, Angela Bates, was kind enough to share their story with me.
When John and Lee Anna got married, they were enslaved on two different plantations in Kentucky. Bates says John was able to visit Lee Anna two days a week.
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When John and Lee Anna got married, they were enslaved on two different plantations in Kentucky. Bates says John was able to visit Lee Anna two days a week.
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They became separated when Lee Anna's plantation moved to western Missouri. John was later sold to another plantation in Missouri.
Slavery continued in Missouri for two years after the Emancipation Proclamation until the state abolished it in 1865.
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Slavery continued in Missouri for two years after the Emancipation Proclamation until the state abolished it in 1865.
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